FBI Hacked, Again! Hacker Leaks Data After Agency Failed to Patch Its Site It seems like the FBI has been hacked, once again! A hacker, using Twitter handle CyberZeist, has claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website (fbi.gov) and leaked personal account information of several FBI agents publically. CyberZeist had initially exposed the flaw on …

There has been a lot of noise about the stolen Democratic National Committee documents appearing on Guccifer 2.0’s WordPress.com blog, but there is another equally impressive document cache out there. DC Leaks (dcleaks.com) are pitching themselves as hackers, but the presentation is more consistent with political opposition researchers. The registration of a domain, the bare …

Regarding Those Kremlin Trolls Netwar Systems Group Launches The Netwar Forward Controller is a central system that accumulates timestamped text data from Twitter, Jabber, IRC, and there is a Telegram integration happening this summer. Advanced search, social/topical/general network analysis, and the ability to integrate things like computational linguistic processing are present.

World computer concept explained in here. What is Ethereum? Vitalik Buterin, Coin Center, March 9, 2016 Bitcoin is widely understood as a system for generating a shared world ledger that securely records bitcoin balances. Ethereum uses many of the same systems (such as blockchains and peer-to-peer networking) in order to generate a shared world computing …

Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley’s Most Secretive Company A cache of internal documents shows that despite growing revenue, Palantir has lost top-tier clients, is struggling to stem staff departures, and isn’t collecting most of the money it touts in high-value deals. SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Palantir-Gone

The blockchain is a cryptographically secured register. A long, long time ago we used to hook a line printer to important systems and they’d print a subset of their logging to it. An intruder taking over a box could erase the contents of /var/log, but that printout was immutable. The blockchain provides something similar, but …

The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlim Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money covers the Kremlin’s methods and motives as they spread the influence modern Russia, rightly called a mafia state. The concept of “Operations Psychological”, as defined by Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, plays a prominent role …

What most will not realize is that the insights in the document are relevant to the growing anger and potential domestic insurgency in the USA. We have 2.5 million veterans from OEF/OIF, assuming 20% in combat that’s 500k, Army/Marines are about 20% black if I recall, so that’s 100k guys who have “seen the elephant”. …